Dave, you're right, I misread. How much time can we get? I'm not sure what the limits are for the remaining types-of-meetings available. There are a few other venues we could explore in Austin, as well. I'm still personally mostly in favor of EC2, I think, because I believe it will be easier for people to integrate into their existing workflow -- sshing into EC2 is probably a bit less invasive than rebooting with a USB drive. I might be off-base though, and it would be less robust for network interruptions. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Geoffrey So <gsiisg@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sure many of us have spare USBs laying around, I still have my ICER one, and a 32GB one just in case. Just have to let everyone know to be ready to format it before anything is put on them.
I think the idea is to have them pre-prepared to save time and to boot onto, in case of network issues. I don't know how we would integrate that with mirroring onto personal USBs. -Matt
From G.S.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Brian O'Shea <bwoshea@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a very good idea. Maybe we could try it with Amazon EC2? I have had success building an AMI in the past, and it's very easy to do... although not free, and not local. I do though like the idea of thumb drives... and I can't imagine it wouldn't be an interactive workshop!
That might be rad, if the network connection is reasonable-- If we had 50 users for an 8 hour meeting and can swing the cheap option, that's only $35. Show me 50 thumb drives for $35 and I'll show you 2 thumb drives and a pile of plastic. Also windows users could get on with putty, if there are any of those.
To pile onto this, if we choose to go that way I can get MSU to donate a big pile of thumb drives, though they will have some combination of MSU, ICER and Physics Department logos slapped onto them... :-)
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